Customer-specific option

Customer-specific option

Customer-specific option

With this function you can adjust the length of the current slot to the length of the scheduled event/s. This way you clear space for the successive events that should not be placed within the current slot. Please save the plan afterwards.

This function allows you to assign ad breaks to any slot in the program plan window. Enter the duration of the ad break (duration in hh:mm:ss:ff) and click OK.

You may resolve the write-protection for individual slots, slot strings or slot types in a locked program plan. Thus you have writing access for these elements. It makes sense to employ this function for users that are working simultaneously in the Programmer because only the slot/elements which are edited by one user will be locked for the other.

1. To enable this parallel working please lock the current program plan window.
2. Please mark the required slot and select this function in the context menu of the right mouse (e. g. for a slot string): the opened lock symbol in the all affected slots informs you that you have writing access to it. A further click on the same option will lock the slot, thus write-protecting it.
3. You may do the same with several marked slots or for all slots of the same type.
   

As can be seen in this figure the two slots are linked by a repeat connector (green arrow). If the first slot contains an event, you may actively schedule the repeat of this event for the second slot (and all further slots). Please select the first (preceding) slot and click on this option in the context menu of the right mouse.

You have the option to complete the scheduling of all repeats into the repeat slots of a scheduled series: Please click on the source slot and select the option Schedule repeat slots of all sequels in the context menu of the right mouse.

In order to empty the scheduled repeat slots of a sequel, please select the source slot or the entire slot string (multi-selection with the mouse or by [CTRL]). Click Empty repeat slots in the right mouse menu to empty all repeats of this slot string.

In case the sequence of the scheduled episodes or programs is not correct or an episode is missing in one of the sequel slots, it makes sense to empty the slot string, edit the sequence of the series to schedule the series correctly afterwards. By selecting the source slots or any slot of a slot string you can delete alle repeats AND sequels of this slot string. Only the source slot will keep its scheduled series episode. After emptying the slot string you can now schedule the correct sequence of series episodes.

This function serves to simultaneously shift the source slot and its repeat slot:

1. After selecting the source slot in the program plan, please go the right mouse-menu option Select repeat slots.
2. Now both slots are selected and you may shift them to the desired position in the plan simultaneously

In case you need to shift or reposition an entire slot string with source slot, repeat slot and sequel slots, please do the following:

1. Mark the source slot and select the option Select sequel and repeat slots in the menu of the right mouse
2. The entire slot string will be selected. Now you can move all elements of this slot string simultaneously to the desired position in the program plan.

1.3.4 Scheduling of Series

The figure below shows a slot string with two scheduled episodes per slot. In the first slot the episodes are arranged in another way than in the subsequent slots. This can be corrected with the function Reorganize sequel slots. If a slot contains two or more episodes, you may arrange their individual positions in this slot and take over this modification into the subsequent slots. After modifying the source slot, please open the context menu of the right mouse for this slot and click Reorganize sequel slots. The subsequent slots will be corrected according to your changes.

In case the length of sequel slots differs from the length of the previous slots, you may adjust the lengths of these slots to the length of the source slot in the context menu of the right mouse.

Usually the Programmer displays a message as soon as you edit the length of a slot within a slot string:

Click Yes to automatically adjust the length of all sequel- and repeat slots.

With this wizard, you can copy the market share (tab Coverage) from one slot to other slots of the same type and in the same time range. The following dialog opens:

In this dialog, you can add, how many minutes a slot can vary from the time range of the current slot. If a slot is within this time range, the market share of the current slot is copied to this slot. If the slot is out of the time range, the market share is not copied.